Long story short, I talked Zebulon into buying this.
It took him about a week to get through the set. He enjoys sci-fi, and he’s fan of anime. He told me the military setting and the dark, desperate feel prevelant through the show appealed to him (one of the ways I was able to convince him was by getting him to watch this episode). He came into the shop at one point last week and kept quoting, “No more Mr. Nice Guius!” the whole night. Obsessed.
And then came the final episode. And the cliffhanger.
“I’ve got to wait for December 20th?” he said, shocked, surprised, amazed.
Saddly, yes, because he missed the start of sci-fi’s repeat cycle for the second season.
“I can’t wait that long … I have to know! What happens?”
Hey, I had to suffer through a several month waiting period too. Didn’t see me cryin’ about it, didjoo?
I forgot to mention the art of Doggy Dodging in my post about the fun of driving.
Long, short, remember any movie where good guys in fighters are dodging bad guys in fighters? Like that. Except the good guys are driving a Toyota and the bad guys are dogs. Not that dogs are bad guys, just for the purposes of illustration here.
The areas I work in (two shops, remember) have large swaths of rural areas. Actually, one is almost entirely rural, the other about half so. Most of the folks living in the country have at least one dog. I don’t think I can remember ever delivering to a house in the franchise’s area that didn’t have a dog, now that I think about it.
One house in particular, in the northern section of the area, is an excellent example of doggy dodging. It’s a large cut of property, a house at the bottom of a hill — blue gravel driveway, turns before a barn (used for a workshop, I think) then terminates in a small carpark before the house (the upper floors of the house are being renovated, the couple has an apartment on the lower level).
They also have three or four small poodle-like dogs. I don’t know the breed. They’re some of the friendliest dogs I’ve met. They’re so friendly they want to greet my car. Now, that’s bad. Anyway, you’ve sort of got to time your approach because if the husband is working in the barn, they’re usually clustered around there. The key is to keep an eye on all three of them until you’ve made that turn, then gun it for the carpark and you’re good to go (except when it comes time to leave). Little fuckers. Friendly fuckers, don’t get me wrong, they really are, but I wish I could speak doggy so I could say “bark bark woof woof woof bark*!”
There’s another house nearby, past Manor Tavern (this house was the $13 tip). Many many dogs, but only two were out when I was leaving — markings were similar, bigger one and a much smaller one, don’t ask me breeds. I made a 3-point turn (loooong driveway) and was trying to make my exit when both dogs began chasing each other across the driveway. Kept my speed slow until the bigger one ran over the smaller one and they tripped up on the grass, then gunned it — if you let the dogs have the ability to keep pace with you, they will. This is bad because then they’ll be following you down the road, too. Bad.
I admit this is an incoherent post, but it was supposed to be part of another, and bah. It’s one thing for dogs to dodge cars, but here we’re talking about cars dodging dogs. Lots of dogs. On non paved surfaces. Fun.
*MOVE! CAR! BIG! RUN YOU OVER! SPLATTER!”
Molly’s isn’t really that blurry in real life.
Come to think of it … am I that blurry in real life? I might just be.
(Goodness I have giganormous hands).
Also: Zenchick, you critique my photo taking? You’ve little room to talk! Um, you did take that photo, didntchoo?
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The Director’s Cut of Land of the Dead will be shown in select movie theaters on Monday, October 17th. In Maryland, that’d be Columbia’s Snowden Square. You can go see it if you missed the theatrical cut over the summer, or you can just buy the DVD that Tuesday.
